Using the Electronic Educational Package of the Stress Management Program for the Mental Health and Job Performance of Intensive Care Unit Nurses in the Face of Patients with COVID-19
Authors
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ءilad bazghale
shahroud medical university
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1255-2219
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ءilad Ebrahimi
Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5731-7103
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Esmail Shariati
Imam Hossein Center for Education, Research and Treatment, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3993-5906
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Mohammd Hasan Basirinezhad
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3672-556X
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22100/ijhs.v10i1.1101Keywords:
Stress Management, Job performance, Intensive Care Unit, COVID-19Abstract
Background: Due to nurses’ special job position, they are faced with a variety of illnesses and accidents in intensive care COVID-19 wards, which puts them in front of so many stresses that can cause anxiety and endanger their mental health. The study aimed to investigate the influence of the web-based stress management program on mental health and job performance of ICU nurses in the face of patients with COVID-19.
Methods: This study was a Quasi-experimental one, with pre-test, and post-test plan without control group using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the ACHIVE Job Performance Questionnaire. The stress management program was prepared as a multimedia product, the program consisted of eight parts and the duration of each part was ten minutes. The significant level was set at 0.05.
Results: Nurses' job performance improved significantly after two weeks from the distribution of the web-based package to the participants and e-mail following the package use and completion of the tasks also 95.6% of nurses had symptoms of anxiety and depression, which became 58.8% after the intervention.
Conclusions: The web-based stress management program is useful for improving nurses' mental health and job performance during and after the pandemic.
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